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Another fantastic donation from St Birinus School

3/11/2020

A huge thank you to St Birinus School in Didcot for another fantastic amount donated to Play2Give this week.

We were thrilled to receive £132.98 yesterday donated by the school.

This latest amount was donated as part of a recent Non School Uniform Day which raised over £530 and Play2Give was one of the four charities chosen by the four Houses to all receive a share of the proceeds. Thank you so much to the boys for choosing us as one of them.

It is great to see such superb continued support to Play2Give from our Andy Baker's former school, which for Andy 18 years ago is where his fundraising endeavours for the Oxford Children's Hospital began, as a year 10 schoolboy aged 14 wanting to help raise funds initially towards the building of the children's hospital.

In total St Birinus as a school has helped contribute over £2,560 for Play2Give over many years, and we are sure they will continue to support us to continue to honour the fundraising efforts of Andy as a former pupil.

Thank you to them all!

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Another tasty total cooked up by latest cakes bake

3/7/2020

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Thank you to the commuters at Didcot station today for another recipe for success in funds.

It was another successful charity cakes sale at Didcot Parkway station today.

Thanks to everyone's generosity from the fabulous donations received for lots of yummy tasty and delicious cakes.

A fantastic £173.50 was collected for Play2Give!

It just shows how much love there is for our amazing fundraising organisation out there amongst our home town of Didcot.

Thank you to everyone who supported and parted so generously with their pennies and pounds including notes to help support our great work in changing, transforming and saving lives across Oxfordshire and our huge thanks to all the team at the station for their wonderful and continued support, especially an extra special thank you to Liz in the ticket office.

The next cakes sale for Play2Give at the station will be on Saturday December 12th.

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'Superheroes' fly in another superb sum for the children's hospital

3/2/2020

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We raised an amazing £4,531 for the youngest of hospital patients throughout 2019, thanks to your help.

Thanks to our local community we were recently able to present a grand cheque to the Oxford Children's Hospital as a result of our fundraising endeavours throughout 2019.

In total across 12 years we have donated close on £65,000 to the Oxford Children's Hospital. At the end of February, we were delighted to have added to our support when Andy Baker along with Andy Williams (head of our Superheroes) and our youngest volunteer, Chloe, 17, visited the hospital to meet with hospital charity representatives and to hand over our gigantic cheque for proceeds raised last year.

Proceeds were raised through activities such as tombolas and raffles, our caped crusaders taking on a 12-hour walk from Didcot to the Children's Hospital last September collecting £580 from generous members of the public to getting soaked in the stocks at the Didcot Summer Fayre and Harwell fete, through to donations raised through yoga classes, a charity 6-hour class-athlon at UTC in Didcot,

What superheroes! We did it! We raised an amazing £4,531 for the Oxford Childrens Hospital in 2019.

Over £480 was raised for the neonatal care areas of the John Radcliffe Hospital last year - Andy and Chloe are pictured presenting Martin, SSNAP charity director, with our grand cheque for the newborn care babies and families

and over £950 was raised through a day of board and table top gaming fun. Andy also assembled his biggest ever OX5 team to take part in the annual five-mile fun run last March, with over £1,500 raised between the heroes.

Andy, a former children's hospital patient, set up Play2Give and with his army of volunteers and supporters has raised over £220,000 over 18 years, for charities. He was initially inspired aged 14 to fundraise as a St Birinus School pupil for the Children's Hospital, before setting up P2G in September 2007, after receiving childhood treatment from birth following a brain injury, and brain surgery aged 12, following a further head injury.

Speaking of our latest donation Joe Baker, spokesperson at the Oxford Hospitals Charity, said: "A great big thank you to all those involved in Play2Give, helping raise an amazing amount for the Oxford Children's Hospital Charity. Your support means we can help fund the latest medical equipment, make the hospital bright and comfortable and fill the hospital with lots of fun things to do for our young patients."

In total last year we raised over £15,000 in funds with the remainder £10k donated out to Headway Oxfordshire, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Footsteps, Soundabout, SSNAP - Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents charity and other good causes locally.
SSNAP received over £480 from endeavours last year, including a 'Heroes and Villains Party' at Partyman World in Oxford last October, which raised £175. Andy spent time in SCBU upon birth, and we have helped raise around £800 across the past two years for the neonatal care charity.

Thousands of gifts estimated at £70,000 in value was raised and given out last Christmas, through our fifth 'Sleigh2Give' initiative, to young hospital patients, young carers in South Oxfordshire, families supported by Home-Start and others in need.

Thank you to everyone who donated, supported and was involved in our fundraising efforts last year and helping us to continue changing, transforming and saving lives across Oxfordshire, we are looking forward to another fantastic fundraising year this year.

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Another fantastic donation from St Birinus School

Another tasty total cooked up by latest cakes bake

'Superheroes' fly in another superb sum for the children's hospital

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